International & domestic Cycling Events held on British Roads
Words by SweetSpot, Images by Chris Maher Katarzyna Niewadoma wins the opening stage of the OVO Energy Women’s Tour! Katarzyna Niewadoma solos to victory in the opening stage of the OVO Energy Women’s Tour, taking the win in Daventry, Northamptonshire by 1-minute and 42 seconds over teammate Marianne Vos. The 23-year-old Polish Road & Time…
The 2017 OVO Energy Women’s Tour takes place from Wednesday 7th June to Sunday 11th June over five stages. This is the forth edition of the Women’s Tour and the first title sponsor for OVO Energy launched originally by SweetSpot in 2014. Download the Final #WT2017 Start Sheet here, Ninty-nine riders have signed-on. …
Matrix Fitness Grand Prix 2017 The thirteen team Matrix Fitness Grand Prix concluded in Stevenage this year. Round 8 saw a first for the women’s series event, a team time trial around the one kilometre circuit of the Old Town. Going into this final round, Drops were 50 points ahead of WNT and Breeze, both…
Current Junior World Cyclo-Cross Champion, Seventeen-year-old Tom Pidcock solos to victory in the penultimate round of the 2017 Tour Series in Durham. Winner of the Junior Paris-Roubaix earlier this year Pidcock [PH Mas Paul Milnes Oldfield] had time for a bike change before the final couple of laps with Conor Swift [Madison Genesis] and Alister…
Bibby Bags a Cobbled Classic in the final round of the 2017 HSBC-UK BC Spring Cup, the Lincoln Grand Prix. Ian Bibby [JLT Condor] crosses the cobbled finish line just ahead of Rory Townsend [BIKE Channel Canyon] and Matt Holmes [Madison Genesis] after a gruelling thirteen ascends of the infamous Michaelgate climb. An early seven-man…
HSBC-UK BC Women’s Roads Series Round 3, Women’s Lincoln Grand Prix 2017 Barnes stamps her authority for a second successive year to win the Women’s Lincoln Grand Prix 2017. Going from the bottom with a lap to go, Barnes explained “It came back together on the climb which was quite good timing with a lap…